You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's pritty enough for homesteading but takes no ribbons at the fair. After three dead babies that fellow wanted his money back, pack her up in a box and ship her east to the wife factory.

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil, hypocrisy is a parlour game, like charades. Such fun, and when the evening is done we shall be holding our bellies to keep from dying of laughter.

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.